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Motorists can take to the Autobahn just a few hours after lighting up a cannabis joint under new rules. German MPs have voted to back a new legal driving limit of 3.5 nanograms of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) – the main psychoactive component of cannabis – per millilitre of blood.

A septuagenarian has been caught with nearly 3,000 boxes of allegedly stolen LEGO sets. Richard Siegel, 71, is accused of masterminding an organised retail theft scheme, with the allegedly stolen boxes ranging in price from $20 to $1,000 each.

The British ambassador to Mexico was sacked after being filmed jokingly pointing an assault rifle at a colleague. Jon Benjamin, for reasons unknown, picked up the weapon while sitting in a parked vehicle during an official trip to Durango and Sinaloa, states notorious for cartel activity.

A man who stole more than a dozen cans of Pringles told police "once you pop, you can't stop". Adam Spencer, 40, was arrested in Nottinghamshire following a string of burglaries and shop thefts.

A police force has told of its success in discouraging young people from partying at the beach by blasting classical music at the shore. The likes of Strauss' The Blue Danube, Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Schubert's Ave Maria have now been used by police in the Finnish city of Espoo to disperse end-of

A plane was turned back halfway through a three-and-a-half hour flight after a male passenger ran naked down the aisle. The Virgin Australia flight was forced to return to Perth just an hour-and-a-half into its journey to Melbourne because of what the airline described as a "disruptive passenger", N

A German businessman has won the right to use Donald Trump’s name on condoms after a dispute over trademark rights at the former president’s Scottish golf resorts. Frank Lindner sought to trademark the name “Trump” for various products, including beers, wines, and contracepti

Balloons carrying rubbish and faeces have been sent by North Korea to its southern neighbour in a demonstration of force and in "violation" of international law. Long-suffering South Koreans living near the border have been warned about the bizarre actions of their totalitarian neighbour.

An octogenarian who allegedly spent close to a decade menacing his neighbourhood with a catapult has been apprehended. Prince King, 81, is accused by police in southern California of being a "serial slingshot shooter", NBC News reports.

Pro-Palestinian protesters at New York University (NYU) are being ordered to watch an episode of The Simpsons as punishment. Lisa Gets an "A", a 1998 episode of the long-running cartoon sitcom, forms part of a course on "morality and ethics" which suspended students have been told they must complete

A new law restricting the use of AI-generated 'deepfakes' has been drafted with the use of ChatGPT. Alexander Kolodin, a Republican in Arizona's state legislature, said he relied on the generative AI tool to help him define the term 'deepfake', which generally refers to highly-convincing fake images

Romania's parliament has sanctioned an MP who was filmed fighting a parliamentary colleague and seemingly attempting to bite his face. Dan Vîlceanu, a former government minister who now sits as an independent MP, will have his salary halved for the next six months and his speaking time reduced

The future of Elvis Presley's famous Graceland mansion is in doubt after his granddaughter launched legal proceedings to prevent it from being auctioned. Riley Keough – herself a well-known actress – is suing Naussany Investments, which claims that the mansion was used as collateral on a

A law student has spoken of developing an addiction to cheese so debilitating that she had no choice but to spend around $12,000 on a two-week stint in rehab. Adela Cojab told the New York Post that she would "literally just eat a block of cheese with my hands" almost every day, because it was "the

A legislator attempted to prevent a bill from being passed by physically grabbing the papers and attempting to run away with them in dramatic scenes in Taiwan's parliament. The MP, who has been dubbed the "Bill Bandit", is seen fighting his way through a crowd of other lawmakers to remove the bill f